"The intriguing story of a woman who came to Oregon in a covered wagon in 1851 and lived long enough to see hundreds of automobiles passing by her home in the last year of her life. Here we have the West as it truly was, from the primitive era of the Oregon Trail to the modern times of World War I" Dr. Richard M. Brown, History Dept. U of O. Lois Barton, amateur historian, has also authored a local history of the Spencer Butte area near Eugene, Oregon, called SPENCER BUTTE PIONEERS, is a long time editor of the LANE COUNTY HISTORIAN, and is a published poet. She has lived on the same land for over 45 years where she and Hal Barton raised eight children and "countless goats, chickens, rabbits and cattle." Used Book in Good Condition